Photographer's Note

Hello all, for those who know me, here is another rock and nature image. I went hiking with the Sierra Club today at Rocky Pine Ridge and we traversed over boulders and through rock mazes. There were so many photo opportunities I was in heaven. We hiked through manzanita forests and through several old burn areas as these tree branches are evidence of to a rocky promontory to sit and view the wonderful ocean and area of the front country of the Los Padres Mountains.

A good application of the principle of 3 with the 3 dead tree branches. Excellent sharpness and effective tight framing. A pleasant diffused light and the yellow green vegetation contrasts well against the backdrop of red rock. I like how the tree at top center follows the contours of the rock. Tfs!

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Hi Karen
I love this little fabulous nature find and you've captured it beautifully, nicely detailed rock formation and the natural colour. Those 'something' extras - the dead tree branches and little touch of green have brought the vitality to this close shot. Sincerely I do feel this image still benefit from a bit more darkening and contrast. A fine effort looking at something of interest and share with us. Congrats
Best regards
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The Graduated Neutral Density filter is a popular tool in any landscape shot. Without this, we instead focuses on a point in the shot to gain a correct exposure. If I do this to foreground water then another for backdrop it will differ. Therefore the backdrop dark area may be over exposed while the fg-my main interest will be nice as hoped. This is where graduated neutral density filters come into play for well balance even exposure, ND graduated filters slowly fade from dark to clear, as a gradient effect. In my shot as you can see the light is Spot-Measured on the foreground water only, while the dark backrop is not affected and the viewer can see the some detail on the dark bdrop too, the end result is almost a very balance clarity. Hope this brief infor explains and thks to your concerns
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